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2019 coach

Blues Riff

Bench
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Why does everyone assume that Gus wants a puppet as a coach?

Everything that I’ve seen is that he is sick of having to step in. The Ivan was fired after he asked for Gus’s help and Hook just got the boot.

I don’t think he wants anything to do with the coaching of the club.
I agree. All we heard for years was that Griffin was a puppet. It now looks like he was the complete oposite. There a lot of myths about Gould that we're all buying into.
 

mxlegend99

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I think it will be Barrett. Gus wants a puppet as a coach so if he fails, he can be a scapegoat, but if he succeeds, Gus can bathe in the limelight. Strap yourselves in tight. Down the greasy pole we go...
Unbelievable.

Gus wants a coach that uses all the available resources and gets along with players and coaching staff. Yet somehow there are people who think it's a bad thing.

I suppose we eould have been better off staying in a constant rebuilding phase
 

betcats

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Why get annoyed at how the teams attack is going in a trial if that was the case?

Because it was hooks 3rd year of serving up the same restrictive bullshit. There had obviously been a lot of conversations in offseason with Griffin and how things would work moving forward, that was the whole premise for him getting the extension after we got rid of Moylan,

Gus backed him and nothing changed despite that support, he got angry. That would be my guess.
 

betcats

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Why does everyone assume that Gus wants a puppet as a coach?

Everything that I’ve seen is that he is sick of having to step in. The Ivan was fired after he asked for Gus’s help and Hook just got the boot.

I don’t think he wants anything to do with the coaching of the club.

People seem to thing Gus is Dr Evil intent on world domination or destruction.
 

Matthew Ellis

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As things stands now, our coach for 2019 will be either Ciraldo or Cleary.

I understand the club aren't considering any of the other options thrown up.
Things at Manly must be absolutely awful if Barret is walking away early from his contract without another gig lined up.
 

betcats

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For what it's worth... from Macquarie Sports Radio. Audio is on the Fox League app (I can't seem to link it from there).


I'd like to believe that but honestly I think they will deny any name that comes up after the shitfight about Cleary.
 

OldPanther

Coach
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They have a contract. WT can make any conditions they want on it being broken

Indeed. That's why I framed what I said as only a possibility and if they did allow it I could see it being based on the fact he isn't selling out for money but doing what he thinks is best for family reasons.
 

franklin2323

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Because it was hooks 3rd year of serving up the same restrictive bullshit. There had obviously been a lot of conversations in offseason with Griffin and how things would work moving forward, that was the whole premise for him getting the extension after we got rid of Moylan,

Gus backed him and nothing changed despite that support, he got angry. That would be my guess.

You can't argue we were fit to start the year. You don't think Gus would of asked the objectives from the trials when booking them? Some teams had 3 for this very reason
 

martielang

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I honestly wonder if Moylan wasn't punted if the 3 amigos would have the same view towards Hook?

His name seems to come up in every other post about Griffin.
 

franklin2323

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I honestly wonder if Moylan wasn't punted if the 3 amigos would have the same view towards Hook?

His name seems to come up in every other post about Griffin.

People didn't like Hook. So as such can't look at the errors from the club with an open mind.

Anthony Seibold an unproven coach. Was given the freedom to plan to whole year in advance from the pre season on. Regardless of what happened he has been able to stick with it...Yet our FG wasn't even able to run a trial game as he wanted without getting Gus offside
 

OldPanther

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People didn't like Hook. So as such can't look at the errors from the club with an open mind.

Anthony Seibold an unproven coach. Was given the freedom to plan to whole year in advance from the pre season on. Regardless of what happened he has been able to stick with it...Yet our FG wasn't even able to run a trial game as he wanted without getting Gus offside

Yeah but what is the context around it? Did Griffin have to meet certain criteria as part of his extension? We don't know the details so it's not really fair to compare a 1st year coach with a 3rd year coach who just got a contract.
 

mxlegend99

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People didn't like Hook. So as such can't look at the errors from the club with an open mind.

Anthony Seibold an unproven coach. Was given the freedom to plan to whole year in advance from the pre season on. Regardless of what happened he has been able to stick with it...Yet our FG wasn't even able to run a trial game as he wanted without getting Gus offside
Hook had 3 years and refused help to improve. We backed him over countless players and had already lost staff because he refused to adapt and work with what we had.

He was only disliked because he had boring game plans that held players back and were nowhere near hood dnough to match good teams or make it far in the finals.

If we were an actual premiership threat he would be loved.
 
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Yep we were firing at the end of 2016 and then Hook threw away everything that was working. He is a crap coach plain and simple
 

franklin2323

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Hook had 3 years and refused help to improve. We backed him over countless players and had already lost staff because he refused to adapt and work with what we had.

He was only disliked because he had boring game plans that held players back and were nowhere near hood dnough to match good teams or make it far in the finals.

If we were an actual premiership threat he would be loved.

yes but he was hired, Re-signed so must of been trusted going forward. Yet couldn't even run a trial game without Gus getting in the way. What hope does our next coach have if that is the case?
 

franklin2323

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Yeah but what is the context around it? Did Griffin have to meet certain criteria as part of his extension? We don't know the details so it's not really fair to compare a 1st year coach with a 3rd year coach who just got a contract.

Why? Both have the same job and the same aim. It is a like for like comparision
 

mxlegend99

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Yep we were firing at the end of 2016 and then Hook threw away everything that was working. He is a crap coach plain and simple
Back when he was willing to work with Gus.

Out Week 1 finals game against the Bulldogs was the sort of footy we could win a premiership with. Yet after playing thst style footy in 2016 it just vanished completely. Out came the boring footy where the game plan appeared to be what NOT to do.
 

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